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Windows 7: How to getSOUNDS to see Alexa device?

I was playing sound through my Alexa bluetooth device on Windows 10 and recently "upgraded" from Win10 to Windows 7 Pro. Alexa announces that it is connected. Alexa's device also shows up in the device list under Devices and Printers. However, it does not show up in SOUNDS, so I cannot change from other speakers or headsets to Alexa (it's not in the list to change to.)

Found an odd solution, but it seems to work. During paring, disable the Windows 7 bluetooth adapter and then enable it again. All the searching BT devices will get picked up and registered again properly.

How to getSOUNDS to see Alexa device?

Forget/remove unpaired Bluetooth device WDM shows BT Peripheral DeviceI paired Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse to my Windows 7 Professional x64 HP ZBook 14 which is connected to my company's corporate domain. Everything worked beautifully until they had to re-image my PC to resolve a disk encryption issue. That issue is resolved, but I have had bad...

Hardware & Devices

Base system device, core processors yellow triangle in device managerDell Vostro 1400, Core2Duo. Installed Windows 7 64 bit a year and a half ago. For those not familiar, the Vostro is not entirely compatible with 64 bit, so the drivers are a little hit and miss.
Computer runs slow sometimes, has since the install. I don't think I've ever seen the yellow...

Hardware & Devices

base system device, video controller and unknown device missinghie i have just installed window 7 and this devices are missing, any help will be very much appreciated.
base system device
device id
PCI\VEN_1217&DEV_7110&SUBSYS_117C10&PEV_00
PCI\VEN_1217&DEV_7110&SUBSYS_117C10CF
PCI\VEN_1217&DEV_7110&CC_088000
PCI\VEN_1217&DEV_7110&CC_0880
UNKNOWN...

Drivers

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Last week, we saw four-year-old Kylie using Windows Live Photo...